Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Jupiter Hammon

Born: 1711
Died: 1806 (aged 95)
Bio: Jupiter Hammon was a black poet who in 1761 became the first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States. Additional poems and sermons were also published. Born into slavery, Hammon was never emancipated.